"That's all?" Curtain looked surprised. "If you don't know anything, why are you getting involved in this mess?"
"Of course I have my reasons." Chu Yao leaned on the slope of the operating table with his hands under his head, looking as if he didn't care about the curtains.
"What if I tell you and you don't give it to me?" Two more security robots flew out from behind the curtain. Suddenly, four robots circled in mid-air, their guns pointed directly at Chu Yao. "You don't seem to be afraid of guns."
Where does her confidence come from?
Curtain carefully looked at the other person's equipment and found nothing unusual.
"You can do whatever you want, but I have the thing." Chu Yao loosened her grip, and the heart core landed steadily on the operating table with a thud. "The heart core is priceless to you, but to me it's just a mission objective. I just want the truth."
Chu Yao still maintains her blood butterfly persona.
When Curtain saw Xuedie's appearance, he touched his chin in thought, and then suddenly laughed out loud.
He thought of a possibility, and he was probably right.
"What are you laughing at?" Chu Yao was not in a hurry, as the initiative was in her hands.
"So can we get started?"
Curtain estimated the time and thought he still had a lot of room to maneuver.
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“Do you know about super artificial intelligence?”
In the empty dome laboratory, the curtains rustled faintly, and the humming rotors of the security robot failed to reduce the echo of the voices.
"I know a thing or two about artificial intelligence." Looking at the cigarette spinning between Curtain's fingers, Chu Yao felt a sense of familiarity. "What does 'super' mean?"
"Since the birth of computers and robots, Tianren has never stopped pursuing artificial intelligence." Curtain found a chair in the laboratory and hesitated for a moment before sitting down. "Super artificial intelligence. This concept was proposed by the great scientist Dr. Gombe, a pioneer in Tianren technology hundreds of years ago."
"This super artificial intelligence is not a simple simulation of the human brain, but a transcendence of the limits of intelligent thinking." Curtain said as he looked at Chu Yao casually.
"In his vision, once successfully created, it would demonstrate intelligence superior to that of the human brain in almost every field. It would self-evolve, accelerating the pace of technological advancement to unimaginable levels, perhaps even becoming a technological singularity, triggering the fifth technological revolution of the universe.
It’s crazy, isn’t it? We don’t even understand how our own brains work.”
Listening to this familiar way of speaking, Chu Yao was almost certain of who this curtain really was...
I hadn't expected him to have such an identity. What was the origin of the Xinghui Organization? Was this his true background?
"Just think about it! This kind of AI could even govern an entire galaxy. If applied to the development of starships, Celestial Being's ability to explore the universe would increase by several orders of magnitude. 'At the end of the sea of stars lies gold,' even children know this saying. No one will give up the pursuit of lightspeed travel."
Chu Yao had previously learned that the speed of Tianren’s fastest spaceship could be close to one-third of the speed of light.
"It can also be used in weapons and warfare. Perhaps within a few minutes, we can create an army of robots that don't need human commands." Curtain reached out and knocked on the robot flying above his head.
"Dr. Gombe's ideas are very advanced. But no matter how advanced the ideas are, there will always be people willing to put them into practice, such as Zhixin Group.
This is closely related to the progress of brain science in the past few hundred years and the realization of brain-computer interface technology. Someone from Zhixin Group... I can't remember which generation of researchers came up with an even more astonishing idea.
Since simulating the human brain with a computer is considered to be almost impossible, why can't we just extract the brain from the human body and then find a way to turn it into a computer?
"It sounds cruel." Chu Yao expressed his opinion.
"It's indeed cruel. The idea caused an uproar in public opinion as soon as it was proposed. After all, human experimentation has always been unacceptable. This incident also became the lead-in for the 'Fourteen Contracts'." Curtain paused and specifically explained the term "Fourteen Contracts":
"On October 14, 304, all fourteen major interstellar corporations, under the supervision of the Grand Council, issued a joint statement halting further development of artificial intelligence."
"You're quite good at history," Chu Yao said jokingly, "but as far as I know, artificial intelligence is still being researched."
"After all, more than two hundred years have passed. Technology must always develop, as long as it does not violate humanitarian principles." Blindian finally stopped turning the cigarette. He held it in his mouth, lit it, and exhaled a puff of misty green smoke. Against the backdrop of the star map on the dome, the drifting smoke looked like an asteroid belt surrounding it.
"Contract 14 officially halted AI research, but it didn't stop Zhixin's covert progress. They partnered with Yali and, using sophisticated brain-computer technology, actually achieved what they set out to do—but Zhixin's researchers underestimated the complexity of the human brain."
Chu Yao knew that she was about to hear the key part.
"Even a wrong blood transfusion can cause rejection, and the same seems to be true for the human brain. Not everyone's brain is suitable for 'transformation' and 'programming.' To achieve their goals, Zhixin Company operates covertly across multiple planets, abducting, deceiving, capturing, and imprisoning... all in order to collect a sufficient number of 'samples.'"
A playful laugh echoed from Curtain's throat. "Isn't it ridiculous? In order to create future-oriented artificial intelligence, they are willing to deprive others of their future."
"To develop a brain capable of producing super artificial intelligence, the conditions and requirements are extremely demanding, with perhaps only one in a million people achieving it. Yet, even with this one-in-a-million chance, Zhixin Company has actually managed to do it.
The name of this sample is Lin Xinnan."
Chu Yao clenched her palms unconsciously.
"No one knows why the best specimen is a child who hasn't fully developed yet... According to the information I've learned, she actually suffers from a congenital brain disease, a rare disease that's incurable and may not even survive to adulthood.
But it happened, and Zhixin Company would not let go of this golden opportunity. The heart core in your hand is the transformed one, Xiaonan.
"It's still far from super artificial intelligence; it's only the beginning of a prototype. But this is an important step for Zhixin Company... With just one more step, super artificial intelligence may no longer be a dream.
So, can you give it to me now? Don’t worry, I won’t default on the 500 million.”
Chu Yao was silent.
She held the heart core carefully in her hands, her eyes looking at her quietly.
Is she still alive, or has she long been dead?
Her time stopped forever on January 1, 309.
In the stopped time, she has been looking for her mother from two hundred years ago.
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